The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-25
Tohu Talks Politics to the
TenneSSeeanS.
RAFT FOR THE COLORED VOTE.
Protection for the Observation-Disclosures
IN Trade and Republican
Buncombe.
sherman to the Tonnes. eeans.

tO-nlg1C, u6llNSTeu ny DeHdIOI O10N
on the invitation of the Republican
members of the Legislature of Tennes-
see. Sherman said he accepted the IN
vifation, believing "that fair presenta-
t7on made to the people of Tennessee,
without distinction of party, OF the aims
and principles of our party, both past
and for the future, might induce them
to min with us in a pubic policy that
riiI contribute to the interests OF the
T'aonIe of Tennessee and of the whole
country; more and
GREATER BENEFITS AND ADVANTAGES
than can possibly be conferred upon
them bv the Democratic party. have
felt that the differences that grew out of
the war now hold large body of the
honest and,patriotic citizens OF the south
from cooperating with the Republican
Marty which. in my judgment, are now
In SYMPATHY with US, and that perhaps
MIGHT he able to disSipate these preju-
dices nv frank statement of the views
which have aCtuated the Republican
marty in the past, and thus bring us
info co.operation in measures tending
IN advance the common interests and
PROSPERITY OF OUR COUNTRY.
At all events, feel confid ent that
the people of Tennessee who, from the
very earliest settlement have been dis
tiuguished for their courage and indie
pendenCe, will give stranger among
them fair hearing for honest opinion. &"
Alter dwelling upon the lessons of
his political life, Sherman said: Estate
rights, as distinguished from national
authority, has been
THE DISTURBING ELEMENT
in American politics. To the people at
large this State and nation are convent
ent agencies for the exercise of distinct
and separate powers for the common
good; to individual citizens they are The
guardians of distinct and separate
rigAts and privileges, for which we owe
allegiance and duty. They are not hos
tile spheres, but, like the p.anets, moVi g
in the grand harmony Of the universe,
in friendly cooperation; but it Is the
people the whole people, and nothing
but the people, when Is the govern
ing and paramount power of our
system. This, at least, is the theory l
have been taught, and if any of you,
reared in a different school, have in
herited Jealousy and suspicion of
Federal authority and of especial
reverence for that of the State of Ten
nesSee, you may find in this the germ
Of the controversy
FOUGHT OUT IN THE WAR
Ii [ understand the: principles of the
Republican party, l would say they are
embraced in the trinity of the Union,
the Constitution and the country: the
preservation of the Union, the
maintenance of the full powers
OF the Constitution, and the growth,
prosperity and grandeur of cur
country, in all its parts, as it is now or
Is to be, These ideas we inherit from
the wisest statesmen in American his.
toTy, and now, since they have been
resihrmed by the war, there is
NOTHING 10 DIVIDE AMERICAN CITIZEN
Oy sectional lines, but prejudice and
passion
Inc speaker then devoted himself to
'1e other controversies which finally
t tga 70 the war of the rebellion and to
Ne Tn. features of the strife relating to
cola " tle the war was over" Sherman
sSau, me people of the north heartily
S Sgpr5oYeu The generous terms granted |
a. "S guerra Grant to General Lee and |
~ tt,o confederate troops, and wished |
r al, ,ne people OF the south should be
iIsoS eut % all their rights and priv
I subject only to such conditions. |
SS 1Cior ana good faith seemed to de-
o:a 4 arising out of the Proclamation
- =, resident Lincoln for the emancina-
s .ion OF the slaves. Both sides felt thai
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
was a necessary result of the var snd
II seemed to US as. if the
~ r,s'eS were to be free, they
~lst be armed with tho
pssLSueges Of free men, and these we-e
asoUEeu 70 them bv ConstitT+;ooaI
qqSca asa The attempt to enforcs
boIse nights by the National anthnrities
II T1se mus lar partially failed and now
q, : e,' considered, under the Iimifstions
ci,; ,..e constitution, that the rights of q
S55, ,aSa,o OF State can only be enforced
sT AM the State or national tribnnsis
'-AA PVSLIc OPINION Is IN7oLERASr
I as,.-!, Jurors will notedo their dutv as
& Ci.,5Ssus' either white or bIacl- nj, Ss
e ,,,lUo' remedy for the pr %ss S
4 ,S S-S, except ths rig6} 'e -
! Il. I az r..n TO where his D' rights IS
aseS rIsspected. Our constitutions are
G Si1b upon the idea that sucb a isn it
L ti11a Is impossible and trnst fhst
.sos LINE e. Is not far distant When 'n tbs
o5 iU 81 every State viii feel Il o to hue he
8 - SEN io oi ;, and expedient that e ~ pe
,sht sn ana equal enjoyment of e ever ~
css ena privilege conferred y bv e't tbs
9a5iI ica0On OF the United States The e
sss PLEDGED TO THIS POLICY,
5 On, Dough it will use no unco,.,;+n-
Nd means ne to secure those risb.a =
' iaiSs to its principles. if it |